Book Reviews | Scaling
When Scaling Goes Wrong
John List’s The Voltage Effect offers advice for companies looking to hit it big, but does the endless pursuit of scale produce more harm than good?
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Book Reviews
Reviews of top books on social innovation
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Book Reviews | Philanthropy & Funding
Parrying Philanthropy’s Critics
Beth Breeze’s In Defence of Philanthropy offers a passionate rebuttal to criticisms of giving that have dominated public discourse.
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Book Reviews | Advocacy
Justice Without Violence
Arguing that police reform is impossible, Derecka Purnell charts an alternative path to building safer communities and a more just world.
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Book Reviews | Environment
Getting to Zero
Authors Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff call for disruptive innovations and radical reconfiguration of industries to decarbonize the planet by 2050.
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Book Reviews | Collaboration
Embrace the Process
Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici recommend that organizations seeking systems change focus less on outcomes and more on principles and practice.
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Book Reviews | Technology
Tech for the Public Good
In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank make the case for renovating government and policymaking with 21st-century digital technology.
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Book Reviews | Social Services
Homelessness Innovations That Might Work
Ten Global Cities features a range of interventions that can, through dedicated collaboration, provide solutions to homelessness.
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Book Reviews | Human Rights
Peddling Diversity
Nancy Leong’s Identity Capitalists reveals the profit motives of diversity and inclusion strategies.
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Book Reviews | Scaling
The Next Silicon Valley
Dan Breznitz’s Innovation in Real Places challenges readers to reconsider the disruptive approach to innovation.
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Book Reviews | Civic Engagement
Make America ‘We’ Again
The famed author of Bowling Alone returns with a sweeping social history that searches for optimism in a deeply divided America.